page_title: Leanchoilia
hierarchical_section_title: Leanchoilia
caption_attribution_description: English: Reconstruction of Leanchoilia superlata, a cambrian megacheiran arthropod. 日本語: カンブリア紀に生息したMegacheira類の節足動物の1種レアンコイリア・スペルラタ Leanchoilia superlata の復元図。 References 参考文献: Morphology and function in the Cambrian Burgess Shale megacheiran arthropod Leanchoilia superlata and the application of a descriptive matrix (August 2012) Overall reconstruction.
context_page_description: Leanchoilia is an megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China. It was about 5 centimetres long and had long, whip-like feelers mounted on frontal arm-like appendages. Its internal organs are occasionally preserved within the substrate in three dimensions.
  Three species are tentatively accepted today: the type species L. superlata, L. obesa and the recently revalidated L. persephone. They may however be examples of sexual dimorphism. 55 specimens of Leanchoilia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community.
context_section_description: Leanchoilia is an megacheiran arthropod known from Cambrian deposits of the Burgess Shale in Canada and the Chengjiang biota of China. It was about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long and had long, whip-like feelers mounted on frontal arm-like appendages. Its internal organs are occasionally preserved within the substrate in three dimensions.
  Three species are tentatively accepted today: the type species L. superlata, L. obesa and the recently revalidated L. persephone. They may however be examples of sexual dimorphism. 55 specimens of Leanchoilia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community.
caption: Restoration
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